The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 7, 1942, Page 4

PAGE FOUR 7 Daily Alaska Empire Published every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Second and Main Streets, Juneau, Alasks. HELEN TROY MONSEN - - - President R. L. BERNARD - Vice-President and Business Nanager Entered in the E = the radio listener merely learned the rumor from a friend, who was talking with a grocery boy. who de- livers groceries to government official’'s house, where he heard the story from a maid, who had a date two nights ago with the fellow who told you the yarn in the first place. Because women and children are being evacuat- ed from defense bases in Alaska, primarily for the purpose of saving shipping space which would be required to bring provisions north for them, is cer- tainly no reason for persons in Juneau to feel they, too, should get: out of the Territory. There has ! never been any intimation that shipping would be cut down to the point where it would be impossible to bring enough groceries north for Alaskans who earn their living here ¢ Too many persons are willing to give us “inside lmlormuuon” about the movements of the Japanese. |Most of them are amateur investigators, with no | reliable source of the dope they pretend to pass out. | “The tongue of the amateur G-man is probably even more dangerous than the loaded rifle of the juntrained amateur soldier,” Gen. Johnson said. “We must not allow either to be turned loose upon us by amateur direction of this highly technical job of civilian defense.” ost_Offioe in Juneau as Second Class Matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carrier in Juneau and Douglas for $1.25 per month. By mail, postage paid. at the following rates: One year. in advance. $12.00; six montbs, in advance, $6.00; one month, in advance, $1.25, Bubscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify the Business Office of any fallure or irregularity in the de- livery of their papers. Telephones: News Office. 603; Office, 374. MEMBER OF AS! TED PRESS | The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not other- yin credited in this paper and also the local news published erein. ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES — Alaska Newspapers, 1011 American Bullding, Seattle, Wash. i Air-Raid Alarms ‘ (New York Times) | Terror is the first weapon of the Totalitarians. | They have used it again and again and again. with | tragic results, on every battlefront, from the streets \or Paris to the hills of Chungking. They would like to turn it now against their greatest and strongest | enemy—the people of the United States. The east- jern coast has had only a “dress rehearsal” air-raid But the possibility of raids persists on both coast |of the United States. And it is clear that the Total- Since a month ago today, rumors in Alaska, and | L 3 F | itarians would like to use such raids to throw us into SILENCE THE HYSTERIA-MONGER all down the Pacific Coast, have been a di al e per ik Wt ' ME @14 state of panic. They are not so foolish as to be- dozen. And if we consider the quality of the TUMOTS,|)iove that the mere threat of bombs falling in oar they have been mighty expensive at that price. ¥ | city streets will cause us to surrender. But they do In a recent column, Brig.-Gen. Hugh S J"h'l"llope to accomplish other results, of great value to son hit at the hysteria-mongers as a greiter enemy them. They hope to create a popular clamor for| within the nation than the Jap navy and air force | “defensive” measures—a demand that we “keep our would be if it moved much closer to our coastline|ships at home to protect our coasts”; a demand that than it is likely to get &wg divert a large part of our productive equipment As an example, a man in the midst of the first{at once into the manufacture of anti-aircraft guns; Los Angeles blackout stood in front of a news stand |8 demand, above all, that we stop “dissipating” our and shouted that “thousands of Japanese planes are|Strength by sending planes and guns to Britain and over Pasadena and heading for Los Angeles” The|'© China. and that we “keep our weapons for our man was arrested and the day the owner of [OWR_Protection.” : | the news stand reported the rumor dispenser The American people have too much rofnmgun e s statil AE W sense and too clear a nc-.vx of what is happening in | unknu\\'n‘ |vxhr world to fall for this obvious strategy of Lh‘e i Totalitarians. The worst possible “defense” in this Johnson characterizes this purveyor of false news| r ored g v i vha o | Ik Y | bour of great danger would be to do just what the | next that not the pletely to him. as “no prankster.” | Totalitarians want us to do—namely, try to hide | “This is an obvious part of Hitler’s technique of | behind the ogeans and “keep our weapons for our destroying public confidence and morale by stirring own protection.” The reckless folly of such tactics up scares,” he declares, (can be illustrated by a single powerful example. If If this be true, we may be able to lay some n(:\\‘(‘ had withheld from Britain the planes and guns our wild rumors in Juneau on fifth-columnists of |she needed for the protection of her islands it is type. But from the number of rumors|Certain that those islands would now be held by Hit- ler—in which case he would have acquired air bases in Iceland and at other points perhaps still vloser; to our Eastern coastline. And in that case we should | the same heard along streets these days, this city mub(‘ have a lot more fifth-columnists at large than we | | to be have ever dreamed b e d h 1 d. Tiods | # i : have had no mere ‘“dress rehearsal” air raid. 4 Let us put it this way—the rumors are quite 5 o i o REe Foig ng | possibly started by someone with an ulterior motive, | 2o o' this time we should have had the full fury | 5o o8 ©|of an air war over our great cities | But the more ragic sequence is that they are then| The only possible “defense” against the type of amplified and repeated, time and again, by persons war which the new Barbarians have perfected is a who may otherwise be counted good citizens. | ruthless and overpowering offensive carried in full That the jitters they spread by these rumors are force to the centers of their industrial production hardly the product of good citizenship goes without We can rely upon the intelligence of the American saying | beople to recognize this fact, and to understand the If Gen. Johnson is right and we could trace:real purpose of,the present threat of Axis raids. No these rumors to their source, then we would discover ‘ threat on earth can drive us from our policy of all- | serving the enemy in their attempts to;Out aid to every enemy of treacherous Japan and | develop a condition of alarmed hysteria on the part |every foe of Nazi Germany. of the American people. But have you ever at-| TR I R tempted to trace those wild tales to the person who| One of the defense program commission men started them? {told a congressional committee that his bank balance As newspaper reporters, we have attempted to was $1.25 on November 28, 1940, and over $74,000 on | December 1, 1941. | down some of the rumors. Because if they | 9 Sometimes a war can be as use- | ful as a pair of trick dice. | could be verified, these rumors would make alarm- | 2 L__*___ as persons run ing, but mighty effective headlines. But in every | They have perfected an electron microscope | case we have traveled in a circle. The bearer of | which will magnify things up to 100,000 times. It the tale | ¢ e if heard it from someone purported to have |ought to be useful in the post-mortem to see if over the radio. But when you find him | Adolf Hitler ever had a heart. heard it ( | es, and telephoned his friend, Lord | the Parole Board, Moe Annenberg, Beaverbrecok back in Washington | publisher of the Philadelphia In- to have Churchill straighten tke| quirer and The Racing Form, is matter out with Roosevelt. ‘lrying a new strategy to get him- By that time, Sam Reber, in the self out of the Federal pen for tax State Department, had telephoned dodging. R. E. Barclay of the British Em- He is trying to drum up public bassy wanting to know what the support for his release. British were up to, and every An- Those conducting the drive are Washinjfol; 7 Merry- Go-Round (Continued from Page One) stopped in Canada to talk to Cana- ’ glo-American coordinator seemed tc|agencies which distribute news- dian Naval Minister Angus Mac- | pe in every other Anglo-American |papers and magazines to news- Donald, and also picked up some ! coordinator's hair stands throughout the United American newspapermen o witness| What the President said to " States. Director of the drive is Jo- the taking over of the two islands. Secretary of State seph Ottenstein, who owns many of these news agencies, some of them in cooperation with Annen- berg. To launch the drive, a meeting was held in Harrisburg, Pa., De- cember 26-27 attended by 27 offi- cers of leading eastern news deal- iers. Ottenstein is planning similar meetings in the south, west, ani Pacific Coast. Those attending the Harrisburg gathering were asked to sign a pe- tition urging Annenberg's release on the ground that in this war period he would be serving the country better at his desk as pub- lisher of his big Philadelphia news~ his | is their secret, REvsH o—— _____ ibutin the end Mr. Hull adopted ‘a “SO-CALLED” FREE FRENCH | milder tone toward the Free French However, on the morning Admir-|and is working out a compromise al Muselier placed the Free French agreement with the Canadians, flag on St. Pierre-Miquelon, Sec-‘ The crux of the controversy, of retary Hull, getting the news at|course, is that Mr. Hull still be- his breakfast table, hurried to thellieves in appeasing Vichy, and the State Department and OK'd 2 British gave that up long ago. seathing statement, castigating the, The British say that General De- ".sojcallcd" Free Frexfch, - Gaulle did most of the fighting for This upset the British consider-|the Allied cause in Syria, while ably, because they had been en-|vichy, in resisting, Kkilled many couraging the French people to|British troops. So they are going think of the Free French not as ato stick with DeGaulle. “so-called” government, but as al But whichever side is right—the government more truly free and British or Secretary Hull—it might representative of the French peo-|pay to work out some teamwork in ple than Vichy. | advance. paper than in prison. Also it upset the Jugoslavs, the — NOTE: Arthur D. Wood, chair- Dutch, the Greeks and a lot of| CHURCHILI PEANUTS man of the Parole Board, asked if other “socalled” governments which | have been maintaining headquar- Winston Churchill didn't drop in | on the President when he returned “public demand” would influence its action, said, “A big shot is ters in London and have been call-| to the White House after his|shown any more consideration thun ing themselves the real govern-!smash-hit speech to Congress.‘flll unknown prisoner. Paroles are ment of their countries — even|Neither did he immediately resume |based on various factors—a pris- though in exile. {his crowded schedule of confer- However, Secretary Hull seemed | €nces. to be even more upset than the| The first thing the Prime Minis British. He had made a deal with|ter did was buy a bag of peanuts. Vichy’s Admiral Robert in Mar- A messenger was sent out to tinique a few days before, by!make the nickel purchase from which Admiral Robert was to keep| “Steve,” famous Greek peanut ven- oner’s case history, his social atti- tude, his general behavior, reaction to custodial® treatment, and ability to find employment.” WAR NOTES Spending $233,000,000 a year for | Ocean where disaster | hostile to the United States. an eye on St. Pierre-Miquelon. And he felt this agreement should be kept. 8o, his Tennessee dander up, Mr. Hull cabled U. S. Ambassador Winant in London to take up the matter with the British Govern- ment. Ambassador Winant, in turn, went to Malcolm MacDonald, Min- ister of Colonies, who was upset that the United States and Britain should be working at cross-purpos- {dor who holds forth outside the | White House grounds at East Exec- utive and Pennsylvania avenues. Then Churchill walked out into the garden behind the executive mansion and fed the squirrels, for which, like Falla, the President's 'dog, the Prime Minister developed a great fondness. MOE ANNENBERG After being - rebuffed twice by| 1 i Army rations, the Quartermaster Corps has become the largest buy- er of food in the country. Average number of calories per man per day is 4,500. Before buying cloth for Army raincoats, the Quartermaster depot in Philadel- ! yerting virtually the entire industry phia tests it with a machine that{to war output.” creates an artificial rain storm. . . Lend-lease officials were puzzled by a British request for “horn hoof meal” manufactured HAPPY BIRTHDAY JANUARY 17 J. T. Petrich Mrs. J. J. Keyser Karl E. Ashenbrenner Floyd Standish Elenora Spaulding Mrs. T. F. Harrison Frederick Peterson Alva Tennison A, F. Baker G. B. Guptill HOROSCOPE “The stars incline but do not compel” Pttt THURSDAY, JANUARY 8 the horoscope for today are signs of great significance, since they mingle warnings with fair promises. Great national strengtn will be revealed under portents of supreme test. HEART AND HOME: Health should be carefully safeguarded un-| der this configuration. Much ill- ness is presaged. Nerve strain| should be avoided as the winter| progresses. Apprehensions must be prevented by a positive attitude of | mind which declines to accept anything disappointing as actual, except what is happening. The con- | tagion of thought will be appar-| ent as a tendency to dwell upon what is threatening or proving un-; fortunate increases. It is wise to| expect what is good. | BUSINESS AFFAIRS: Trade| may lag slightly, but prosperity In " THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA - 20 YEARS AGO s friends, the occasion being her birthday the previous evening for the Chichagof will continue for wage-earners. There is a warning sign for labor | wkich continues under a sinister direction of the stars. The death of a man conspicuous in the coun- cils of industrialists and workers is forecast NATIONAL ISSUES: Discussion of changes in educational systems may be widespread as the vision of a changed world causes a reali- novel post-war conditions | INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS: Pluto exerts an unfavorable in- fluence in the Far East where storms and earthquakes are likely ‘o add to the misfortunes of Ja-| pan. The winter may be severe in many places where war continus to lay waste to cities and nations The United States Navy is to be| exceedingly active in the Pacifi | will overtake any aggressive movement of forces Persons whose birthdate it is have the augury of a year of ex- citing - events.-in which what s most unexpected may prove forlu-‘ nate. Children born on this day prob- | ably will be exceedingly talented in science or the arts. They have| the forecast of success in-brilliant | careers. { 1942) (Copyright i dead cattle—until they learned 1t was excellent for extinguishing in-i cendiary bombs. Most stag- | one railroad—complete with loco-| motives and freight cars. The or-| der has been filled, and shipped | off to Iran. . . . Equally smgge.'-\ ing was the purchase for China,| under lend-lease, of 75 million gal-: lons of fuel oil. | THE POTTSVILLE BOMBER | The city of Pottsville, Pa., has just finished a drive for Defense Bonds and Stamps to buy a bomb- jer for Uncle Sam to avenge Pearl| Harbor. Pottsville’s 25,000 inhabi- | tants have 12 with more cash coming in. | It might be a good idea to name | the bomber Pottsville and let other | cities raise money for their bomb- | er. too. (Copyright, 1942, by United Fea- | ture Syndicate, Inc.) | Entire Auto Industry Now In W_ir Work { Conversion of Factories for Production of Defense | Goods Under Way . | WASHINGTON, Jan. 7.—William Knudsen, OPM director, today called upon the automobile indus- try- to make deliveries this year of $5,000,000,000 to- $6,000,000,000 - worth of weapons-and othet war goods. Knudsen told reporters during a recess of a meeting with 200 tep ranking auto makers, labor leaders and government officials . that “everybody expressed a willingness to cooperate in the program of con- - e Subscribe to the Daily Alaska and|Empire—the paper with the largest|tionals will’ be known by the but- shop. Dr. from"paid eirculation, | sions were aroused.” the company. from THE EMP JANUARY 7, 1922 Miss Harriet Sey was happily surprised at her home by a number of mine. IRE 3 Mr. and Mrs. James L. Freeburn and daughter left on the Ambassador Frank Metcalf, mineral surveyor, was a passenger on the Ambassador for Chichagof where he planned to remain for some time doing work for Certain taxes, among them the so-called “nuisance” and “luxury” taxes established during the first January 1922, according to a Internal Revenue for the Washir Hans Berg the Ambassacior for Chichagof issued by the Prince Jonah Kuhoi (Cupid) died after a long illness. World War, were repealead effective tatement ton district, Collector of accompanied by his wife and children, took passage on Kalanianaole, Delegate to Congress zation of the need of preparing for from Hawaii for 20 years and a member of the Hawaiian Royal family, In a three-column article appearing in the New York Times of Sun- day, December 18, former Governor Thomas Riggs advocated giving Alaska control of her own resources as being vital to her development. Mae Murray was starring in “The A. B. C. of Love” at the Palace Coliseum. The weather forecast for the next 24 hours was continued | Theatre while Douglas MacLean was starred in “The Jailbird” at the mild temperatures with occasional light rain and southeasterly moderate wind, e | Maximum temperature was 37.4 and minimum was 35.38. Daily Lessons in English % ©. corpon SUS S e ) WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “The water has mostly all evaporated.” evaporated.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Percolate. in NO, and not per-ku-lat, OFTEN MISSPELLED: Populace | ¢ thickly populated). (the common people SYNONYMS: Flexible, pliable, pliant. plastic, limber, WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” gering lend-lease request was. for | increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word: if asleep; hence, inactive. “All vegetation was dormant.” DORMANT; asleep, or Say, “The water has ALMOST ALL (or NEARLY ALL) Pronounce per-ko-lat, O as' ). Populous Let us “His dormant pas- MODERN ETIQUETTE * popgrra LEE Q. should he do? A, 501 the introduction. : T did not quite catch the name.” sed a total of $375,000 ticular heed to the name so as to be able to repeat it when acknowledging It is always well Q. Should one use expensive stationery? A. One’s stationery should be the best he can afford. If one does not understand a name when being introduced, What If a name is not understood, it is quite in order to say: “I'm to pay par- A letter cannot present a good appearance if it is written on cheap paper, the kind that absorbs the ink and causes little feathered edges to appear as one writes. Q. What should be done if one happens to choose the wrong fork | or place the butter on the wrong plate? A. Take no notice of it, and probably no one else will. | E apologies. 1. 2. How many carats does pure gold contain? 3. Which two Presidents of the United States have had the longest full names? Do not make " Drs. Kaser and Freeburger Dr. A. W. Stewart DENTIST 20TH CENTURY BUILDING Office Phane 409 Dr. John H. Geyer DENTIST ROBERT SIMPSON, OPT. D. Graduate Los Angeles Collsge of Optometry and Opthalmology Glasses Pitted Lenses Ground The Charles W. Carter Mortuary PFourth and Franklin Sta. PHONE 136 Jones-Stevens Shop LADIES'—MISSES’ READY-TO-WEAR Qeward Street Near Third H. W. L. 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